Maggi Brisbin
@margaretbrisbin.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. / #newPI MICOlab @USFCMS studying interactions btwn marine microbes. ❤️ radiolarians, phytoplankton, bacteria. PhD from @oistedu. she/her.
https://micolab-usf.github.io/home/
https://micolab-usf.github.io/home/
Black Friday so far:
✅coffee and grad school strategizing with my previous wundergrad
✅supported our local bookstore (more Claire Keegan to read!)
✅took some phytoplankton chla measurements for my grad student visiting family
✅helped current wundergrad get a pcr started
✅feeling grateful ❤️🦃
✅coffee and grad school strategizing with my previous wundergrad
✅supported our local bookstore (more Claire Keegan to read!)
✅took some phytoplankton chla measurements for my grad student visiting family
✅helped current wundergrad get a pcr started
✅feeling grateful ❤️🦃
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Black Friday so far:
✅coffee and grad school strategizing with my previous wundergrad
✅supported our local bookstore (more Claire Keegan to read!)
✅took some phytoplankton chla measurements for my grad student visiting family
✅helped current wundergrad get a pcr started
✅feeling grateful ❤️🦃
✅coffee and grad school strategizing with my previous wundergrad
✅supported our local bookstore (more Claire Keegan to read!)
✅took some phytoplankton chla measurements for my grad student visiting family
✅helped current wundergrad get a pcr started
✅feeling grateful ❤️🦃
Happy turkey trot day! (My mom and I walked this year)
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happy turkey trot day! (My mom and I walked this year)
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Your periodic reminder: I keep a list of useful resources for scientific writers - book, blogs, software, etc - here:
Writing Resources
Writing is a huge part of any career in science, and for many writers – no, for most writers – it’s a daunting challenge. But it’s not a challenge that you have to tackle alone. That’s a lesson I w…
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November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Your periodic reminder: I keep a list of useful resources for scientific writers - book, blogs, software, etc - here:
Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Hey #microbialsky - anyone looking for a good PhD student this cycle? Ugrad from my lab is looking but no luck with the PIs she has contacted (no funding, no response). She worked in my lab for 1.5 years, now is a research tech at the FWC research institute. Excellent at the bench & super smart!
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Ask not what your journal can do for you—ask what you can do for your journal 🌊
JGR:Oceans is now looking for new Editors and Associate Editors, if you're interested get in touch. We don't bite! 😀
JGR:Oceans is now looking for new Editors and Associate Editors, if you're interested get in touch. We don't bite! 😀
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Ask not what your journal can do for you—ask what you can do for your journal 🌊
JGR:Oceans is now looking for new Editors and Associate Editors, if you're interested get in touch. We don't bite! 😀
JGR:Oceans is now looking for new Editors and Associate Editors, if you're interested get in touch. We don't bite! 😀
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I recently rewatched Jurassic Park and was so excited to share this clip with my Genomics and Bioinformatics class to teach how critical it is to understand Unix/Linux after Lex saves everyone from the velociraptor by rebooting the security system! 😂🦖🦕👩🏼💻
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I recently rewatched Jurassic Park and was so excited to share this clip with my Genomics and Bioinformatics class to teach how critical it is to understand Unix/Linux after Lex saves everyone from the velociraptor by rebooting the security system! 😂🦖🦕👩🏼💻
Is it bad luck to do pcr on Halloween? #microbialsky 🎃👻💀
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Is it bad luck to do pcr on Halloween? #microbialsky 🎃👻💀
Extremely proud to share that @lydiaruggles.bsky.social, my very first graduate student, successfully defended her thesis on Pyrodinium vitamin requirements and bacterial interactions yesterday afternoon! #microbialsky
September 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Extremely proud to share that @lydiaruggles.bsky.social, my very first graduate student, successfully defended her thesis on Pyrodinium vitamin requirements and bacterial interactions yesterday afternoon! #microbialsky
Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#microbialsky
#microbialsky
August 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#microbialsky
#microbialsky
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*Every single headline* about a scientific/medical advance right now should include the funding source
I'm reading & discussing a bunch of papers w/ my class. I don't usually point out funders (almost always NIH/NSF/USDA for this class). You can bet your patooties I'm gonna do that from now on
I'm reading & discussing a bunch of papers w/ my class. I don't usually point out funders (almost always NIH/NSF/USDA for this class). You can bet your patooties I'm gonna do that from now on
February 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
*Every single headline* about a scientific/medical advance right now should include the funding source
I'm reading & discussing a bunch of papers w/ my class. I don't usually point out funders (almost always NIH/NSF/USDA for this class). You can bet your patooties I'm gonna do that from now on
I'm reading & discussing a bunch of papers w/ my class. I don't usually point out funders (almost always NIH/NSF/USDA for this class). You can bet your patooties I'm gonna do that from now on
MICO/Brisbin lab is hosting Making Waves REUs this summer! Please share with your favorite undergrads! Are you an undergrad excited about oceanography? Apply or reach out with questions! #reu #microbialsky
January 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
MICO/Brisbin lab is hosting Making Waves REUs this summer! Please share with your favorite undergrads! Are you an undergrad excited about oceanography? Apply or reach out with questions! #reu #microbialsky
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Let's kick of the New Year like an acantharian with a little #protistsonsky fireworks magic. Happy New Year 2025! 🦑
January 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Let's kick of the New Year like an acantharian with a little #protistsonsky fireworks magic. Happy New Year 2025! 🦑
That’s a wrap! Last little cruise of 2024 in the books. 15 CTD, 6 bucket, and 5 underway stations, uncountable plankton images, 41 filters for DNA extractions, 35 samples for flow, many aux samples- will be interesting to see how coastal communities bounce back post disturbance #microbialsky
December 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
That’s a wrap! Last little cruise of 2024 in the books. 15 CTD, 6 bucket, and 5 underway stations, uncountable plankton images, 41 filters for DNA extractions, 35 samples for flow, many aux samples- will be interesting to see how coastal communities bounce back post disturbance #microbialsky
Out on a mini-cruise to follow up on our post-hurricane cruise to study the responses of coastal microbes to major disturbance events. Dolphins escorted us out of Tampa Bay ❤️🌊 best Christmas present ever - cool science, good weather, lots of charismatic microflora 🦠🧪 #microbialsky
December 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Out on a mini-cruise to follow up on our post-hurricane cruise to study the responses of coastal microbes to major disturbance events. Dolphins escorted us out of Tampa Bay ❤️🌊 best Christmas present ever - cool science, good weather, lots of charismatic microflora 🦠🧪 #microbialsky
I am so proud of my Xmas and oyster-loving PhD student Olivia for putting on a super fun and successful outreach event “VOGS and EggNog” yesterday - VOG are vertical oyster gardens and participants built over 600 VOGs for her dissertation project!
December 15, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I am so proud of my Xmas and oyster-loving PhD student Olivia for putting on a super fun and successful outreach event “VOGS and EggNog” yesterday - VOG are vertical oyster gardens and participants built over 600 VOGs for her dissertation project!
Our happy little coffee shop on campus reopened this week after being severely damaged (underwater) in hurricane Helene. Our weekly writing group met there, and meeting there again today felt like a big step in “getting back to normal.” I remain fascinated by extreme storms, but that was a semester.
December 6, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Our happy little coffee shop on campus reopened this week after being severely damaged (underwater) in hurricane Helene. Our weekly writing group met there, and meeting there again today felt like a big step in “getting back to normal.” I remain fascinated by extreme storms, but that was a semester.
Happy thanksgiving science sky! This is my favorite holiday because it’s the only one that it is super acceptable to pressure your fam to run with you :)
November 29, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Happy thanksgiving science sky! This is my favorite holiday because it’s the only one that it is super acceptable to pressure your fam to run with you :)
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The @jcamthrash.bsky.social lab is hiring a technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of their research. Join a lab pushing the boundaries and working with amazing organism. Also a great crew of ppl. 🌊🦠🧫 #Microsky #biotechniology
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Research Lab Technician II at USC
Learn more about applying for Research Lab Technician II at USC
usccareers.usc.edu
November 8, 2024 at 11:29 PM
The @jcamthrash.bsky.social lab is hiring a technician to help with high-throughput culturing and other aspects of their research. Join a lab pushing the boundaries and working with amazing organism. Also a great crew of ppl. 🌊🦠🧫 #Microsky #biotechniology
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Today was my first day teaching as an assistant professor and it is the first time I really felt like a (new) professor. I built the lab and mentored grad students last year but still kind of felt like a postdoc. Today was one of those very special memorable days 😍☺️🌊🪸🦠
August 26, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Today was my first day teaching as an assistant professor and it is the first time I really felt like a (new) professor. I built the lab and mentored grad students last year but still kind of felt like a postdoc. Today was one of those very special memorable days 😍☺️🌊🪸🦠
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People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
July 20, 2024 at 2:49 AM
People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
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Come visit Jean Lim and Aly Rogers at their poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 today! #ASMicrobe 🦠 #USFCMS
June 14, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Come visit Jean Lim and Aly Rogers at their poster on RNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in Florida. #7239 EEB-P-001 – EEB01 today! #ASMicrobe 🦠 #USFCMS
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
June 12, 2024 at 6:09 PM
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
June 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM
My first conference was a GRC. Many years later, I am elated to be at another GRC with my first student @lydiaruggles.bsky.social presenting her first poster. Proud new PI here ☺️☺️☺️ #microbialsky #marinemicrobes
Excited to share our most recent work exploring the impact of urbanization on bacterial communities in the coastal waters of #Okinawa #Japan. Read it #openaccess here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MicroSky #marinemicrobes
Urbanization of a Subtropical Island (Okinawa, Japan) Alters Physicochemical Characteristics and Disrupts Microbial Community Dynamics in Nearshore Ecosystems - Estuaries and Coasts
Subtropical and tropical islands are undergoing rapid urbanization as the human population expands globally. Urbanization disrupts coastal ecosystems through several pathways—including the replacement...
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June 9, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Excited to share our most recent work exploring the impact of urbanization on bacterial communities in the coastal waters of #Okinawa #Japan. Read it #openaccess here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MicroSky #marinemicrobes
I found a tree in Bordeaux that actually looks like a phylogenetic tree! Getting excited for the marine microbes GRC in a few days :)
June 8, 2024 at 9:03 AM
I found a tree in Bordeaux that actually looks like a phylogenetic tree! Getting excited for the marine microbes GRC in a few days :)